The pair of Tomb Raider movies starring Angelina Jolie aren’t exactly bulletproof pieces of cinematic history. There’s no use pretending otherwise. They’re not awful, they’re just from an era where action movies were a bit uninspired, and as a result they’re a bit generic and already rather dated despite being only a little older than a decade.

Ari Handel was studying to become a neuroscientist when he met a young man named Darren Aronofsky at college. Fast-forward a decade or so, and now Handel is Aronofsky’s most frequent collaborator, having coproduced The Wrestler and Black Swan, as well as having cowritten The Fountain.